Works that Shaped the World: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. In his 2015 speech for the U.S. Congress, Pope Francis singled out four Americans who exemplified the best of the American tradition, including Dorothy Day (1897-1980). Day, whose cause of Catholic sainthood…
Works that Shaped the World: Radical Orthodoxy
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. The contemporary theological movement known as Radical Orthodoxy boldly suggests that we have our history all wrong. Against typical narratives of epoch shifts in the Reformation and Enlightenment, Radical…
Symposium on Languages and Linguistics in honour of Jane Simpson
Symposium
This symposium consists of 2 days of talks that reflect the cohesion and range of Professor Jane Simpson's research and applied research interests. They centre around Australian languages, and related to those, the areas of historical linguistics, morphosyntax, semantics, the lexicon, and language…
Lecture and Q&A with Victoria Manganiello (USA)
Lecture
Victoria Manganiello is a textile artist, educator, producer and collaborator based in Brooklyn, NY. Exploring the intersections between materiality, technology, geography and storytelling, Victoria’s installation work, abstract paintings and kinetic sculptures are made meticulously with hand-woven…
School of Art & Design Higher Degrees by Research Conference
Conference
Please join us over three days for our next Higher Degree Research Conference and support our PhD and MPhil candidates who are giving their research presentations. The seminar is open to all and we welcome your involvement. Dr Chaitanya Sambrani will open the seminar, and our HDR speakers are (in…
Desiring Silver: Saving Souls, Travelling Light, the Other Side of the Coin
Seminar
The ANU Centre for Early Modern Studies is pleased to host an online seminar ‘Desiring Silver: Saving Souls, Travelling Light, and the Other Side of the Coin,’ by Helen Hills, Professor Emerita of History of Art at the University of York, on her current research project on silver’s materiality of…
Works that Shaped the World: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. Kahlil Gibran’s book-length mystical poem, The Prophet, is one of the most popular but critically neglected modern religious and literary texts. First published in 1923, and selling in the tens of millions,…